Art Nouveau Figures

As Florence in the 16th century in Italy under the Medici's decision in Glasgow in the 19th century was one of the most powerful and richest city of the English Empire.

In the early 18th century, when Scotland is turning into the Atlantic in Glasgow as a city on the west coast, was ideally placed for shipment of goods between England and New World colonies and America. Glasgow has been supplying the United Kingdom than the rest of Europe in certain quantities of products like tobacco, for example.

Then in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution grew in power and the town became rich with many more fortunes of millionaires. The expansion of industries such as textile production, successive, glassware, soap making and, finally, shipbuilding and locomotive manufacturing caused increase in many factories in the wake of the population and Thousands of new jobs. Its impact was enormous industrial a reflection of cultural and artistic ambition of the city. Inspired by Arts and Crafts movement William Morris, many wealthy citizens and representatives of the middle and upper middle have been interested in art and handicrafts and other times richer citizens, families or institution were able to patronage for artists or talented people.

The most remarkable institution of the public at that time in Europe was the Glasgow School of Art, founded in 1845 as a Government School of Design had the ambition to participate in and develop new artistic trends and support modern ideas art. Philosophy, cultural, social and art of William Morris in the 19th century changed the approach to art, the importance of artists and art as a whole in the contemporary world. Many artists and craftsmen in the late 19th century came from all over Europe caused by his art and ideas Crafts and began searching for their own artistic inspiration in the natural world, organic forms and clarity design.

New style in many countries of modern Europe, new directions and dynamics of applied arts. Just for 30 years, the period between 1880 and 1914 Art Nouveau exploded in the works of many artists like Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser in Austria, Germany Herman Obrist, Antonio Gaudi in Spain, Hector Guimard, Victor Horta, Emile Galle, Switzerland , Belgium and France, Louis Sullivan in the United States and Arthur Mackmurdo, Charles Ashbee and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Britain. Charles Rennie Mackintosh had contacted the main ideas of Art Nouveau in the early years of his life as a young boy and later as a student at Glasgow School of Art, who recognized his great talent, individualistic account of modern ideas, and finally developed his own personal style called it the style or the style of Mackintosh in Glasgow, because of his activity in the group "The Four", which is the same artistic ideas have worked at the Glasgow School of Art by him, with Herbert MacNair and sisters MacDonald, Marguerite, who became his wife in 1900. Similar to the principles of Art Nouveau design was influenced by nature with organic lines from flowers, shells, feathers, insect wings, abstract shapes on this source, but also the Japanese influences with simple, linear and clear, even symbolic, forms in remittance.

Its the one hand, the Main Committee of Architecture has been consolidation of the Glasgow School of Art in which exterior and interior, Mackintosh contained the most important principles of its own style. Architecture of the Macintosh was based primarily on vertical lines, simple geometric shapes in relation to subtlety, used to block the details with its organic elements favorite rosebuds to act often with female figures on the roundel above. similar participles could be seen in buildings like this or Windyhill House Hill. Mackintosh interiors have been specified by individual palette, its own palette of colors, different.